The media and cultural production / P. Eric Louw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louw, P. Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture.

Mass media--Influence.

Mass media.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage, 2001.

Summary:

This book offers a fresh and accessible introduction to the relationship between media power and cultural production. By marshalling a range of theoretical perspectives from political economy and cultural studies, The Media and Cultural Production invites the reader to analyze the relationship between the making of meaning, political, economic and social power and the machinery of cultural production - the media. The book critically examines the notion of the: cultural industries'; examines the regulatory framework in which the cultural industries operate; looks at the impact of globalization on cultural production; explores the way in which meaning is both produced and contested. Contents: The Struggle for Power and the Struggle for Meaning / Sites for Making Meaning I / The Culture Industry / Sites for Making Meaning II / The Regulatory Framework / Sites for Making Meaning III / Commercialization and the 'Death of the Public Sphere' / Striving for Discursive Closure / The Struggle for Hegemony / Moving to an Informational Economy / The New Rules of the Power Game in Global Network Capitalism / Circulating Meaning I / Making News / Circulating Meaning II / The Public Relations-izing of War / Circulating Meaning III / Making Sense of Distant Places / The Limits of Power / Resisting Dominant Meanings

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0761965823

0761965831

OCLC:

46332364